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| Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. |
| by Chateaubriand |
| Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. |
| by Georg C. Lichtenberg |
| A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. |
| by Seneca |
| Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. |
| by Oscar Wilde |
| Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. |
| by Thomas Carlyle |
| Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. |
| by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Less good from genius we may find than that from perseverance flowing; so have good grist at hand to grind, and keep the mill a-going. |
| by Thomas English |
| Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay. |
| by Johann Von Goethe |
| The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing. |
| by Gamel Nasser |
| Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. |
| by Albert Pike |
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